Airline Tycoon
_Airline Tycoon_ is a managerial simulation in which the player is the
manager of an airline company. This game features six missions (plus a
tutorial) in which the player needs to fulfil different goals to win. Of
course it offers all usual options for business games: fire and hire
personnel, taking commissions (while considering the capabilities of the own
fleet) or buying, repairing and upgrading airplanes. Every day has two
recurring activities: receiving feedback for the past work and planning the
routes for every plane. This can be a challenging task because the 48 airports
along with an unlimited number of planes (18 different models) give a lot of
opportunities. The player also has the option to cooperate with one of the
three AI competitors.
Besides the usual office and statistics screen this game also features an
animated airport view in which the player receives optical feedback, e.g.
potential customers which think about the stuff they like and dislike. On this
screen the player has direct control over his character and moves him to the
places where the above mentioned actions are performed.
| Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
| CPU | Intel Pentium | Intel Pentium III / AMD Athlon MP |
| VRAM | 32 MB | |
| RAM | 16 MB | 64 MB |
| OS | Windows 95 | |
| Graphics Card | nVidia GeForce 2 MX 100/200 32MB / AMD Mobility Radeon 7500 64MB | |
| Direct X | DirectX 5 | DX 8 |
| HDD Space | 512 MB | |
| CD-ROM | 4X (600 KB/s) | |
| Game Analysis | A simulation computer game where the player acts as manager of an airline, competing against three other tycoons. The names of the four tycoons are: Tina Cortez (Sunshine Airways), Siggi Sorglos (Falcon Lines), Igor Tuppolevsky (Phoenix Travel) and Mario Zucchero (Honey Airlines). The player must keep their aircraft in good shape and equip them at such a level as to keep the customers satisfied, buy new planes (from the expensive Airplane Agency or from Mr Schlauberger at the museum who sells old planes at a much lower cost) and take out bank loans if required. The player must also manage their personnel, plan flights, form relationships with the air hostess, buy fuel, attend meetings in the airport manager's office and, if there is the time, slip into Rick's café for a quick cup of coffee. The player can also perform sabotages on the other players. The graphics are bright and decidedly tongue in cheek: the tycoon Igor Tuppolevsky has a set of Russian dolls on his desk—and an open tin of caviar, while Tina Cortez has a picture of a matador and a bull's head. | |
| High FPS | 200+ FPS ( GTX 1060 ) | |
